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Brave New World.

HUXLEY, Aldous.

  • Published: 1932 , London: Chatto & Windus,
London: Chatto & Windus, , 1932. You do look glum! What you need is a gramme of soma First edition. Huxley's enduring dystopian novel, which meditates on the negative consequences of unlimited happiness, turned him into the most famous British novelist of the inter-war period. Octavo (177 x 116 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red and blue morocco with the titles onlaid in tan morocco above an onlaid diagonal stripe in white and tan morocco, white soma tablet onlaid to the rear board, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, blue endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.

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